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May 06, 2010

BlahTherapy, Omegle & Chatroulette

BlahTherapy. This is one of a few similar resources. You log on, either as a listener or as a ventor, and then you just... chat with some random stranger. The idea according to their site is "Talking about your problems can help you to spot things that are causing problems in your life. A person with a different perspective on your situation can help you decide how to fix the problems you are having, and how to deal with the things you can’t fix" What itmeans in practice is that the first 3 people that you talk to want to discuss the short comings of their sex lives. Very dull indeed. I see no point to it at all.

Omegle doesn't have the 'therapy' pretensions of BlahTherapy - it's just a random chat room with either text or video. All my conversations started with the other random person asking 'asl?' short for age, sex, location and an answer of anything other than 'young blonde teen girl gagging for it' means you get cut off immediately while the sad man goes to find someone else (probably another equally sad man) to uh... discuss fantasies with. Avoid like the plague!

However, both of these are as nothing in comparison to Chatroulette, which you may have heard of. The idea here is that you link your webcam up and get partnered with some random person, who you can talk to, or click 'next' to move on. The first two that I got to see where actually webcammed groins, doing what sad male groins do. Afterwards followed click, next, click next. Terribly distressing, hateful and soulless. The internet at its very worst. Really, really horrible. It also made me feel horrible as well - this mindless clicking and dismissing of human beings one after another.